You can't pin this one on me ...
Sure we can. When you shovel this much sh!t there are consequenses ;o)
Posted on 01/11/2013 11:20:38 AM PST by classified
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- This Persian Gulf sheikdom, in the middle of a massive building and tourism boom, has a big sewage problem.
By one estimate, some $300 billion in new projects are going up in Dubai in the next 10 years -- including the world's tallest building and a man-made archipelago of luxury homes on islands shaped like palm trees.
Stefania Bianchi/The Wall Street Journal Every day, hundreds of tanker trucks line up for almost two miles at the three approaches to Dubai's treatment plant, to dump sewage. .But Dubai's single, 30-year-old sewage-treatment plant isn't keeping up. Sewage output here is rising by 25% a year. That has officials in this city-state, one of seven emirates that make up the UAE, scrambling for innovative places to store the waste, or ways to put it to good use.
In Mirdiff, an area popular with upper- and middle-income expatriates, city officials have installed underground sewage tanks between newly built villas. The tanks are designed to store raw sewage until homes are connected to the city's main sewage system. But the tanks, which are emptied by tanker trucks two to three times a month, sometimes overflow before they are drained, residents say.
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Ship it to Mecca.
That’s why they wanted the Dubai Ports deal. To ship it to New Jersey.
Washington DC has the same problem.
Where to put the stuff?
Wow, that’s a lot of shiite.
Dump it in Obama’s office. A present from the people.
You can't pin this one on me ...
Sure we can. When you shovel this much sh!t there are consequenses ;o)
I like this comment on the forum thread:
This is now our most-viewed-topic-ever.
192468 views and counting. Holy shit.
Why post a 5 year old article in the News section?
They need these for transport.....
Why not? This was the first time I had ever read anything about the whole city/state of Dubai having only septic tanks for disposing of their sewage! Not only is it almost incredibly unbelievable, it is probably not a widely known fact that every skyscraper has it's own septic tank! Of course, “expat2”, I'm am sure that you read the article years ago, but perhaps there are others like me who have not read it and would like to be enlightened!
And like, who cares if the septics don’t work. It’s all freaking desert anyway!
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